Oldfieldia is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae, the only member of its subtribe (Paiveusinae). It was described as a genus in 1850.Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1850. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 2: 184-186 description in Latin, commentary in EnglishTropicos, Oldfieldia Benth. & Hook. f.
Oldfieldia is native to Africa.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Species
Oldfieldia is after Richard Albert Kearns Oldfield (R.A.K Oldfield) the British plant collector in Nigeria and Sierra Leone and surgeon on the 1832-1834 Niger River expedition with Laird and Lauder
Oldfieldia africana Benth. & Hook.f. - Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo Oldfieldia dactylophylla (Welw. ex Oliv.) J.Léonard - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Angola Oldfieldia macrocarpa J.Léonard - Democratic Republic of the Congo Oldfieldia somalensis (Chiov.) Milne-Redh - Somali, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
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